ALSA in a 2.6 world
Richard Hally
rhally at mindspring.com
Sun Apr 18 07:05:46 UTC 2004
Russell Coker wrote:
> On Sun, 18 Apr 2004 05:19, Thorsten Leemhuis <fedora at leemhuis.info> wrote:
> [regarding installing a kernel from rawhide for ALSA]
>
>>Normally yes. But I's not that easy that my parents could do it and not
>>99% risk free (nothing ist 100% risk free ;-) ). An it's way harder and
>>riskier then installing a windows device driver. This is the level I
>>want to reach (okay, with I dream of).
>
>
> So your parents need bleeding-edge ALSA sound capabilities? My parents didn't
> even notice when I broke sound on their machine and I still haven't got
> around to fixing it...
>
> I intentionally don't let my parents install anything on their machine. When
> they need something installed I'll install it for them. Making Fedora
> administration possible for the average office worker or the average child is
> worth-while, making it possible for the average 60yo is not going to work.
>
Hey! watch that about 60yo, there might be some 59 1/2 year old lurking
that may have been programming before you were born 8-}
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